Matched betting?! Tell me more...

Just came across a good few MNers talking about it on another thread. I don't even know what it is but from the jist of the convo, there's good money to be made from having a couple of hours a day to do it... I have those hours!! Can anyone enlighten me please?

I am thinking we have nothing to lose? My Aunt used to have a Twitter account that she solely used for 'comping' - basically competitions on Twitter where you had to retweet or something . Anyway for approx 2 hours a day she was winning hand over fist! Anything she didn't want got eBayed or GumTreed!

I've signed up too smiley... haven't had chance to look in detail yet and may not for the next week. It strikes me as something that seems a bit complicated the first few times you do it, then it's easy?

Yes, I've watched the 15 min video and read all the intro stuff. I think I get the general idea but I think the first few times will be complicated...lots of tabs open, going back and forth. I'm waiting for kids to go to bed then will give it a go. I'll check in when I've done it! If anyone does it before then please let us know how it goes!

I absolutely recommend opening cashback accounts too, on Quidco and Topcashback. When you join Betfair and all your bookie accounts, go through a cashback site (after checking the t&c of any bet offers first to make sure you're not invalidating any free bets).

It's better if you have a large bank as then you can tackle the bigger offers - Bet365 was profitable for me and I made £189 from that one. I think I put £2000 in my 'float' and I was lucky to be able to transfer this from my savings account. The bigger your float, the quicker you can work through the large offers

My biggest successes were bingo I'd say. I made £1500 from bingo. Never played bingo before in my life and it was every bit as dull as I imagine : )

How are you getting on without it, Cherry? How big of a float do you maintain?

I was ill and didn't have the float or the time to keep up with it, so I found my fees for Profit Accumulator were eating into my profit, so it made sense to stop.

I'm thinking about getting back into it but since I've already done most of the intro offers, I need to start doing accumulator bets and the like. And I think I'm going to need at least £300 as a float to start off again.